Superficial Quotes - Page 12

• Of two evils, had not an author better be tedious than superficial! From an overflowing vessel you may gather more, indeed, than you want, but from an empty one you can gather nothing.

  Hannah More

  Two, Evil, May

  Hannah More (1840). “The Miscellaneous Works of Hannah More”, p.474

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• As specialists of apparent life, stars serve as superficial objects that people can identify with in order to compensate for the fragmented productive specialisations that they actually live.

  Guy Debord

  Stars, Order, People

  Guy Debord, Ken Knabb (2003). “Complete cinematic works: scripts, stills, documents”, A K Pr Distribution

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• The most civilized people are as near to barbarism as the most polished steel is to rust. Nations, like metals, have only a superficial brilliancy.

  Antoine Rivarol

  People, Political, Steel

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• Places like New York are just too intense, too much about money, too much about ambition; it's all too superficial for me.

  Carmen Kass

  New York, Ambition, Too Much

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• I just want to keep finding special characters that I feel like I can bring to life and characters that are real and not superficial.

  Aubrey Plaza

  Real, Character, Special

  "Aubrey Plaza's Ready to Play Bubbly Cheerleader". Interview with Britt Aboutaleb, www.elle.com. January 27, 2012.

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• Many people don't have relationships to their siblings in adulthood, or they have superficial ones. It's sort of unfashionable, particularly in America, to be close to your family.

  Kiki Smith

  Sibling, America, People

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• The specualtist, who is not content with superficial views, harasses himself with fruitless curiosity; and still, as he inquires more, perceives only that he knows less.

  Samuel Johnson

  Knowledge, Views, Curiosity

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• Sit down and get out a piece of paper and start making lists. Ask yourself, are you in harmony with the things in your life? Are you adopting superficial values? Are you giving your being enough room? Are you doing new and creative things?

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Giving, Creative

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• I've had some marvelous parts, but I'm also asked to play characters who are kind of superficial people.

  Holland Taylor

  Character, Play, People

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• L.A. is so fake - girls there are so superficial.

  Verne Troyer

  Girl, Fake

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Kitsch is: a species of beauty, which, as it is florid and superficial, pleases at first; but soon palls upon the taste, and is rejected with disdain, at least rated at much lower value.

  David Hume

  Art, Kitsch, Taste

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• Forgiveness is not the misguided act of condoning irresponsible, hurtful behavior. Nor is it a superficial turning of the other cheek that leaves us feeling victimized and martyred. Rather, it is the finishing of old business that allows us to experience the present, free of contamination from the past.

  Joan Z. Borysenko

  Divorce, Past, Feelings

  "Fire in the Soul: A New Psychology of Spiritual Optimism". Book by Joan Z. Borysenko, 1993.

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• Anya looked upon Nin admirably. Having him as a partner-in-crime-if only on this one occasion, which she hoped would only be the start of something more-was more revitalizing than the cheap thrills of a cookie-cutter shallow, superficial romance, where the top priority was how beautiful a person was on the outside.

  Jess C Scott

  Beautiful, Reflection, Superficial Things

  Jess C. Scott (2010). “The Other Side of Life (Cyberpunk Elven Trilogy, Book 1, Pre-Final Version)”, p.68, jessINK

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• The World's Fair was the precursor to theme parks like Disneyworld, and the really sort of cheap, superficial promotional architecture that you see everywhere in the US. I think there's a danger when you start creating a civilisation that isn't meant to last.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Thinking, Creating, World

  "State trouper". Interview with Lynsey Hanley, www.theguardian.com. November 20, 2005.

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• When we usually think of fears, in comics or in films, it's most often fears on a relatively superficial level: fear of murderous insects, of ghosts, of zombies, or even fear of dying.

  Boaz Lavie

  Thinking, Zombie, Dying

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The spirit of Plato dies hard. We have been unable to escape the philosophical tradition that what we can see and measure in the world is merely the superficial and imperfect representation of an underlying reality.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Plato, Philosophy, Philosophical

  Stephen Jay Gould (2006). “The Mismeasure of Man (Revised & Expanded)”, p.177, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Conversation, which is friendship's mode of expression, is a superficial digression which gives us nothing worth acquiring. We may talk for a lifetime without doing more than indefinitely repeat the vacuity of a minute.

  Marcel Proust

  Expression, Giving, May

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume II: Within a Budding Grove (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.575, Modern Library

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• If you can understand the inner life, then you can wear the uniform, the tattoos, or whatnot and realize that the things that are different about us become superficial.

  Ethan Hawke

  Tattoo, Different, Uniforms

  "Q&A – Ethan Hawke Calls Brooklyn’s Finest the Kind of Movie That Made Him Become an Actor". "AMC" Interview, www.amc.com.

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• Even a superficial glance is sufficient to show that all the innumerable forms in which the life-urge of Nature manifests itself are subject to a fundamental law - one may call it an iron law of Nature - which compels the various species to keep within the definite limits of their own life-forms when propagating and multiplying their kind.

  Adolf Hitler

  Law, Iron, Atheism

  Adolf Hitler (2016). “Mein Kampf: My Struggle: (Vol. I & Vol. II) - (Complete & Illustrated Edition)”, p.282, eKitap Projesi

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• We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Tattoo, Tribes, Records

  "The Poet at the Breakfast Table". Book by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., 1872.

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• I don't like clothes that constrict. The idea is that they should accompany and help you. There's nothing superficial about getting dressed. Clothes can give you self-confidence and help you be yourself.

  Christophe Lemaitre

  Being Yourself, Self Confidence, Ideas

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When you’re obsessing about one thing, you can reach insights about how to solve hard problems. If you have too many things to think about, you’ll get to the superficial solution, not the brilliant one.

  Evan Williams

  Thinking, Brilliant, Problem

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• I think that my relationship with my fans has been very special from day one. It's been very special in spite of the fact that I don't think I would ever be able to call myself a press darling. I don't think there's ever been a superficial hype machine around me.

  Josh Groban

  Thinking, Hype, Special

  "Singer Josh Groban". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. November 8, 2010.

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• The Four Reliances. First, rely on the spirit and meaning of the teachings, not on the words; Second, rely on the teachings, not on the personality of the teacher; Third, rely on real wisdom, not superficial interpretation; And fourth, rely on the essence of your pure Wisdom Mind, not on judgmental perceptions.

  Gautama Buddha

  Teacher, Buddhist, Real

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• The Internet is just one big gossip chamber - that's why it's so fascinating and entertaining. It's a fabulous platform for superficial communication.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Communication, Gossip, Fabulous

  "It’s Sufjan Stevens’ Way or the Highway". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 30, 2009.

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